2026-04-29
Horseshit
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Pompeii archaeologists use AI to reconstruct man killed in volcano's eruption
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San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard
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You may see Japanese soccer fans cleaning up the stadium after World Cup games
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We Have to Hold the Line Against the Pseudoscience of Facilitated Communication
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The New York Times has again casually endorsed facilitated communication, or FC, a relentlessly-discredited practice that plays on the desperation and credulousness of parents of severely disabled children. As in the past, they’ve done this while barely seeming to understand that they’re doing something controversial at all. The culprit this time is a review of the new novel Upward Bound “by” Woody Brown, a man with severe autism who has been nonverbal his entire life and dictated his book through FC, which is also the means through which he earned a masters degree and other remarkable feats. Brown, like so many others who have been “saved” through FC, was found to have all manner of remarkable intellectual abilities once someone else was “facilitating” his communication.
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Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Could Change Humanity
- And if it does; the NYT will be there to tell you it was a bad idea and they were against it from the start!
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Meta seeks to power data centers with energy beamed from space
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Super fly: can an electric aircraft spark a quiet revolution in New York travel?
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Couples Wanted to Have Children. Rising Costs Are Stopping Them
Musk
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI's future
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Can Sam Altman be trusted? Musk wants a jury to answer the question
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Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future
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Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to court in high-stakes showdown
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Tech titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to court in trial over OpenAI: What to know.
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'Stole a charity': Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom
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Musk: "The reason OpenAI exists is because Larry Page called me a specieist"
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Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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MySpace Co-Founder Misses "Serendipity" of Social Media as Documentary Premieres
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Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
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Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
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Scammers use Gmail dot alias trick to spoof Robinhood in phishing scam
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US Ends Investigation into Claims WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private
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Sony silently rolls out 30-day online DRM check-in for PlayStation digital games
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Meta poised to surpass Google in digital ad revenue for first time
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Continuing the story of early DOS development
listings include sources to the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, several development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, and some well-known utilities such as CHKDSK. Not only were these assembler listings, but there were also listings of the assembler itself! This work offers rare insight into how MS-DOS/PC-DOS came to be, and how operating system development was done at the time, not as it was later reconstructed.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
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Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned into AI Slop
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'They're supposed to be handmade': zine creators fight to resist AI influence
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EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says "unwarranted intervention"
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Taylor Swift files to trademark voice and image after AI concerns
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People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
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Companies are hoarding AI compute because of FOMO and sitting on most of it
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Whole Nations
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Utah greenlights 9GW AI campus using over twice state electricity
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ChatGPT Outperforms Top Students in Japan's Elite University Entrance Exams
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AI in Political Campaigns: They Have No Idea What's About to Hit Them
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Norway wealth fund CEO warns just using AI for job cuts risks backlash
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AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
In 2024, Ed Zitron was hardly alone in wondering if AI would take this route; it seemed plausible to me too. Models like GPT-4 were tantalizing mostly because of what they suggested might be possible in the future, rather than for their direct economic utility. If building bigger models didn’t pan out, it was easy to imagine that we’d see some bankruptcies. But time passes and situations evolve. Ed Zitron, though, clearly does not.
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It was bullshit promises reported as accomplished facts that roused his ire; the reporting has not changed.
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OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership
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DeepSeek Unveils Newest Flagship AI Model a Year After Upending Silicon Valley
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How to audit what ChatGPT knows about you – and reclaim your data privacy
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Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
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The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
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SXSW Used AI-Powered Trademark Tool to Censor Dissent on Instagram
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Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful-Microsoft should take note
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OpenAI Hits Back at Growth Fears, Says 'Firing on All Cylinders'
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What Anthropic's Mythos means for the future of cybersecurity
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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents from Running Wild with Your Credit Cards
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OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI Smartphone to Rival iPhone
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Samsung may post first-ever mobile division loss this year, blaming RAM crisis
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Buying, Selling on eBay Disrupted Worldwide for more than 24 hours
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Union accuses Apple of unlawful discrimination against represented workers
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FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
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Bankruptcies Increase 11.9 Percent
Bankruptcy filings increased 11.9 percent during the 12-month period ending March 31, 2026. Business filings increased 11.4 percent, from 23,309 in March 2025 to 25,960 in the newest report. Non-business filings rose 11.9 percent, from 505,771 in March 2025 to 565,890 in March 2026.
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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher
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There’s a pizza price war going on, and Domino’s is feeling the pain.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Billionaire tax proposal in California on track to qualify for ballot
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Palantir, Thales and startups competing to build FAA's predictive air traffic AI
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Amazon Gets Exemption from Trump FCC Router (Extortion) Ban, Doesn't Say How
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FBI and DHS Raid Dozens of Minnesota Fraudsters, Including ‘Quality Learing Center.’
Democrats
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Grassley demands FBI, DOJ records on Clinton Foundation probe
Beyond Uranium One, the FBI documents outline allegations involving Boeing, Abu Dhabi, Colombia, Bangladesh, and Haiti. In one instance, Clinton allegedly promoted a $3.7 billion aircraft deal between Russia and Boeing during a 2009 trip; two months later, Boeing pledged $900,000 to the Foundation. In Abu Dhabi, the State Department approved a U.S. customs preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport around the same time Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from UAE-connected entities. Despite these allegations, the investigation was repeatedly stalled. A detailed FBI timeline shows the Little Rock field office was directed by headquarters to close its case in August 2016, reopened it in 2017, then faced further obstruction when a senior federal prosecutor incorrectly told investigators the statute of limitations had expired. A January 2020 memo confirmed the IRS also closed its parallel Foundation investigation that month. Grassley is demanding a full accounting from DOJ and FBI by May 11, 2026, including all investigative reports, interview transcripts, and the final disposition of every allegation raised in the probe.
Left Angst
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White House pushed out new AI official after just four days on the job
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Politico execs meet staff, letter warns CEO risks 'undermining our reputation'
On Friday, Politico employees — including some in Europe and some members of its US unionized staff — sent a letter to recently named global editor-in-chief Jonathan Greenberger warning that Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner’s “repeated use of POLITICO to promote his political agenda” risked “taking on the appearance of editorial slant.”
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Trump administration to pay companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases
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The New York Times Makes the Case for "Microlooting" to Murder
The suggestion of open hunting season on corporate executives did not appear to shock or repel Spiegelman. After all, we are living in “an unethical society.” She explained that many felt that the murder of Thompson, the father of two, meant that “finally, someone can actually do something about health care.” Even liberal comedians are practicing a literal version of slapstick. Margaret Cho this week declared that “we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat.” To be fair, Spiegelman did concede that it might seem a bit “scary” for some to start murdering our way to social justice. She also explained that shoplifting can be justifiable because people are “stealing from Whole Foods — not just for the thrill of it, but out of a feeling of anger and moral justification.” New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino also contributed to the podcast, titled “The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?” She immediately threw in her own experience with “microlooting” and explained why it is arguably moral: “I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big-box store [isn’t] significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest.”
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A Time Traveling Superintelligent AI tried to warn about correspondence dinner
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Can someone on the Left tell me what rules we're playing by?
If Donald Trump saying "March peacefully and patriotically" on January 6th is "inciting a violent insurrection"... Then what is it when Hakeem Jeffries calls for "Maximum Warfare everywhere all the time"? Because if we're playing by the Left's rules, Hakeem Jeffries should be held legally responsible for the mass assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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CBS's Norah O'Donnell Uses Assassin's Rhetoric To Target Trump
In her sit-down with Trump just one day after the latest assassination attempt, O’Donnell repeated the line with a straight face. “What’s your reaction to that?” O’Donnell said, after remarking that the manifesto was a “stunning thing to read.” Trump clocked the trick immediately. “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” Trump said. He later added, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” The president’s chastising didn’t deter O’Donnell from deploying her old propagandist tricks. Instead she feigned surprise when Trump declared, “I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. … I’m not a pedophile.” “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell intejected.
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The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup
Critics not only theorized the shooting was orchestrated to force the ballroom project, but that the construction was linked to — you guessed it — the Mossad. Some said the ballroom has been infiltrated by the Israelis and is a replica of Solomon’s Temple.
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Iran's Meme War Against Trump Ushers in a Future of 'Slopaganda'
- Dunno, are they telling us that Trump beat up Secret Service to take control of the limo so he could participate in an insurrection? 'cuz that one was pretty sloppy...
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A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government's ID Platform
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Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies
Cohen, an independent contractor and Harvard-educated attorney, decided to file but not pay her federal taxes, instead putting the owed amount into a high-yield savings account and paying only her state taxes. Protesting has long involved picketing, marches and even hunger strikes. But some Chicagoans, angered over the Trump administration’s tactics, are trying a different form of civil disobedience: not paying their federal taxes. “War tax resistance” organizers say they’re seeing a barrage of new interest in their longstanding movement by people appalled at the federal government’s aggressive deportation efforts, U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza and the U.S.-Israel war against Iran.
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Ex-FBI Director Comey indicted in probe over online post
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on Tuesday in an investigation over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials said constituted a threat against President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and confirmed the indictment to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The charge or charges against Comey were not immediately known. It’s the second criminal case the Justice Department has brought against the longtime Trump foe, who said he assumed the arrangement of shells he saw on a walk, reading “86 47,” was a political message, not a call to violence.
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CNN Forced to Postpone ‘Imperial Presidency’ After Another Left-Winger Allegedly Tries to Kill Trump
“[A]n update: My latest @CNN documentary, ‘The Imperial Presidency,’ will air at a later date. We will keep you posted,” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria wrote on X the day after Saturday night’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner. As someone pointed out on X, “They keep having to delay programming on right-wing fascism because of left-wing violence.” The X post references The Savant, an Apple TV miniseries about some chick (played by Jessica Chastain) who uncovers right-wing extremism. If you recall, this miniseries was postponed after a trans-loving leftist was charged with assassinating Charlie Kirk.
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US to issue passports featuring Trump's picture to commemorate America's 250th
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First Amendment advocates blast the FCC's early review of ABC broadcast licenses
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Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Former Fauci adviser David Morens charged for allegedly covering up COVID-19 records
"More than two years ago, my PSI staff discovered and made public emails in which Dr. David Morens bragged to colleagues about his efforts to avoid transparency by destroying federal records and using his personal email to communicate on 'sensitive issues,'" said Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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Woman weaponizes swarm of bees against deputies trying to carry out an eviction
A Massachusetts woman who deployed a swarm of honeybees as a weapon against deputies during an eviction has been found guilty by a jury April 17, 2026. Rorie Susan Woods was found guilty on four counts of simple assault and battery, along with two counts of reckless assault tied to the incident. On Oct. 12, 2022, deputies from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office were carrying out an eviction when Woods arrived in an SUV pulling a trailer stacked with beehives. Video shows Woods getting into a physical altercation with a deputy on the back of the trailer before breaking open the hive. She smashed the lid with her hand and flipped one of the hives off of the flatbed. “The bees came out, unleashed and swarming, angry and they started stinging everybody there,” said Sheriff Nick Cocchi in an interview with WCVB. When told that some deputies had bee allergies, Woods allegedly replied, “Oh, you’re allergic? Good.” Woods did not know the tenant of the building. She had been known to protest other evictions in the Boston area.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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London Met Police investigates officers after using Palantir AI tool
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Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25% tax if they don't pay publishers
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Claire's closes all 154 stores in UK and Ireland with loss of 1,300 jobs
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Train collision in Indonesia kills 14 as rescuers work to reach survivors
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After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on
Iran / Houthi
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
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FDA finds 'significant violations' committed by major manufacturer
The manufacturer of products sold as Tylenol codeine, Adderall and Klonopin received a warning letter from the FDA for 'significant violations.' The letter was sent earlier this month to Par Health USA, LLC & Endo USA, Inc. after an inspection in October at the company's manufacturing facility in Rochester, Michigan, uncovered the violations. The letter summarizes 'significant violations of Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals,' including improper handling and manufacturing of sterile drug products.
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FDA turns up heat on Amgen, proposing to rescind approval of Tavneos